Gas-pressure regulator



(No Model.)

0. H. BAKER.

GAS PRESSURE REGULATOR. No. 341,544, Patented May 11, 1886.

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CHARLES H.-BAKER, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-PRESSURE REGULATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,544, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed March 5, 1886. Serial No. 194,095. (No model.) v

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Pressure Regulators; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference'marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then clearly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation, partly in section; and Fig. a 2 is diametrical cross-section of the meter.

In the drawings, Arepresents a globe-valve in a main snpply-pipe, J, and B a pressuregage connecting therewith by the tube 1).

H is a valve-casing between two sections of pipe, J, and H a reciprocating valve. The latter is a tube or sleeve open at the bottom and having the cross slots h h,which are made to register with the casing-slots h h. This valve is connected by rods If with the ordinary governor, O, by which it is adjusted to admit the passage of a greater or less quantity of gas. After passing the valve H the gas moves on to the meter D, having the usual peripheral buckets, (1, against which it presses,

so as to rotate the bucket-wheel in its casing.

In order to give an upward turn or deflection to the current of gas as it enters the meter, I arrange at the entrance thereof an up-' ernor acts in the usual way, as its arms rise,

to raise the valve H to a greater or less degree. Thus the valve-slots h will so register with the port-slots h as to graduate the supply of gas as wanted. The walls of the portslots h h are obliqued, so that the supply is out off or put on gradually, and not suddenly,

by a shearing motion, thus preventing the communication of an irregular motion to the meterwheel. R

For the purpose of recording on the dials, rotated in the usual manner, the quantity or cubic feet of gas passing through the supply to the distributing or delivery pipe, I key on the meter-wheel shaft- D the pinion 1., which drives the wormscrew 2. The latter connects, through the bevel-whee1s 3, upright shaft 4, and pin pinion 5, that drives the hand-shaft, with the unit-dial. Each successive dial is arranged to have the hand make one movement for every revolution of the preceding dials hand-shaft.

The main supply-pipe J is connected in any suitable or preferred manner with the oil-well or natural source, so that my invention may operate to furnish a regular and steady supply to the consumer. Ordinarily the press ure at the well is varied and is very irregular, so that the consumers, sometimes get a very high pressure and at other times a very low one. The consequence is, that they have been hitherto compelled to adopt various devices to give a steady supply of gas. My invention effects this automatically and with perfect certainty.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a gas'machine, the combination, with the meter, of' a supply-pipe made in two sections, J J a case, H, between the two sect-ions, and a valve, H, said case and valve provided with ports h h, and the valve connected with the governor O, as and for the purpose de-' CHARLES H. BAKER.

Witnesses:

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